<h1>Ladki Bahin scheme pays Rs 1,500 monthly to eligible women, balanced against acknowledged fiscal stress.</h1> The Ladki Bahin programme provides Rs 1,500 per month to eligible women from financially weaker sections, modelled after a similar neighbouring-state scheme and launched following the coalition's poor parliamentary showing. The government recognises the fiscal stress of sustaining large welfare transfers and proposes rationalising other expenditures to allow welfare and development projects, including free electricity for agricultural pumps, to continue in parallel.